PHL 606 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Simone De Beauvoir, Richard Lewontin
21 Mar 2014
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Book about genetics & women : lewontin, biology as ideology. Woman in love/ feminine love: an idolatrous love, a love in bad faith, a love that cause conflict + suffering. Sovereign subject idol (god-like), by being an object-for-self and being essential for the masculine person. A love from feminine person sets up the god-like love for a masculine person. A feminine person is like an agent that helps masculine reach goals. Pg 684, women overcomes being an essential than a man actor by radically assuming situation as a second . Society has set it up that women are second (the support for persons) Example of first lady & president winning election. She matters because he won the recognition (award), she wants to be like his right hand not a subject of her own independence (supportive nature) The woman is like martyrdom can become so extreme if man doesn"t do it back to her that it becomes self-loathing.
